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 “You drove 1,000 miles just for this game?” Christmas 1988 was a stressful time for many American parents. Nintendo’s  Super Mario Bros. 2 was the must-have toy that year. But copies of the hit videogame were as scarce as hen’s teeth. ABC News ran a  20/20 special on the shortage called “Nuts for Nintendo.” They chatted to one dad who drove 1,000 miles from Indiana to NYC in the hopes of grabbing a copy.  “I’ve tried 7 stores a day for 3 weeks and still can’t find it,” he told reporters. They called it a “chip famine.” Why was it so hard to get your ha...

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A message board destroys a top Wall Street hedge fund. You’ve surely heard about the WallStreetBets/GameStop saga by now. Many investors see it as a sign markets are headed for a crash. In fact, Google searches for “stock market bubble” just hit the highest level ever. And a new E-Trade survey found two-thirds of investors think the market is in a bubble. What if I told you this is the start of a megatrend that will propel disruptor stocks higher for years? As I’ll show you today, this story runs much deeper than a bunch of average Joes crushing the pros.

 “ You do stocks, huh? I’m thinking about ploughing a few grand into GameStop. That thing’s going to the moon, bro!” The guy on the treadmill next to me was clearly excited. Then he told me all about another opportunity as he wiped sweat off his face. “ The next Tesla,” he said, grinning from ear to ear. And he wasn’t the only one. I had at least four conversations about stocks at my local gym last week. (It’s not exactly a hotbed of investors. In fact, I’ve  never talked about stocks there until recently). Another guy told me he bought $5,000 worth of Royal Carib...

BusinessWeek magazine in July 2000. Amazon’s future looked bleak after the tech bubble burst earlier that year. The online shopping pioneer was hemorrhaging cash, forcing it to cut 15% of its workforce. Top fund managers cut Amazon from their portfolios.  And over the following year, its stock price sank from $105 to  $5. Source: Twitter In 2000, Amazon was a small online store selling books and CDs. It soon branched out to other categories like electronics. But folks remained skeptical. That same year, Wharton business school quipped,  “The attempt to be more than a bookstore...